The Central and Eastern Europe AT 100 Years
The Central and Eastern Europe AT 100 Years

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the evolution of the borders in Central and Eastern Europe in the last 100 years. Thus, this paper intends to answer several questions. Why the national and cultural criterion has been referred to in marking out the borders at the end of the World War I, and how much has this model succeeded to ensure peace and prosperity of the people living here in the last century. Why the national-cultural criterion and less the geo-political criterion has been challenged by the states unsatisfied by the new borders marked out in Central and Eastern Europe? How was it possible that inquiry opinions occur in Central and Eastern Europe, exceeding the interwar splitting on borders, which have become actual only at the end of the century? We are heading towards a maturation of the concept on open borders in Central and Eastern Europe or towards a recurrence of splitting?

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